Dorcas and her daughters ran a burglary ring and were found with goods stolen from a Massachusetts minister. Later she got in trouble for telling fortunes, a big no-no back in the Puritan era.

Then came a 1692 arrest warrant for witchcraft in Salem. “I’ve always been fascinated by that period of history,” says Smart. “I desperately wanted to be in a production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible [about the Salem witch trials].” Must be in the genes.